The Ingram Building, constructed between 1965 and 1967, originally served as a chemistry facility at the University of Kent. It now accommodates the School of Physical Sciences. The teaching laboratories had remained largely unchanged and required refurbishment to meet current standards.
The project delivers new wet and dry teaching laboratories with associated support spaces. Facilities include a 130-person general physics laboratory with 12 double fume cupboards. An analytical laboratory and a 100-person electronics and forensics laboratory are also provided.
The refurbishment upgrades the building fabric and replaces all building services. Works include new laboratory furniture, ceilings, floor and wall finishes. New windows and doors are installed, and existing toilet facilities are refurbished.
The new fume cupboards operate at a face velocity of 0.4 m/s. This achieves a 20% reduction in energy use and associated carbon emissions.
A feasibility study for a new 4,650 sqm academic building for the School of Economics, providing teaching spaces, meeting rooms, open-plan and cellular offices, and breakout and social areas, alongside the refurbishment of existing buildings.
The design creates flexible, well-connected spaces with a clear identity for the school.
A circular landscaped courtyard forms the focal point, while the layout maintains views towards the lake and surrounding woodland.
A student residential development comprising 490 study bedrooms, alongside a gymnasium, café and laundry facilities on a steeply sloping site.
The design works with the existing topography, using existing terraces to form a strong linear route that terminates in a central square. These shared spaces encourage interaction and create a sense of community within the development.
Eight-person cluster flats occupy paired pavilions along the street, encouraging social interaction and community. The scale and massing respond to the surrounding urban grain and density.
The Centre for Molecular Processing is a new three-storey research building providing 1,520 sqm (GIA) of accommodation.
The ground floor includes seminar, meeting and administration space, while upper floors provide wet laboratories, writing areas and dry research space for IT, mathematics, engineering and computing. A glazed bridge links the building to the existing bioscience facility at first-floor level.
A full-height atrium connects the three floors and reflects the collaborative nature of the research environment. The layout balances open-plan working with the enclosure and containment required for laboratory spaces.
Laboratories, meeting rooms and seminar spaces use mechanical ventilation and comfort cooling, supported by rooftop plant. Other areas use natural ventilation where possible, supported by the stack effect of the atrium. Rainscreen cladding and solar shading reduce solar gain while maintaining good levels of natural light.
An international design competition for 500 student residences at the Plas Coch Campus in Wrexham.
The design creates a network of streets and shared spaces that encourage social interaction and provide clear points of orientation. Student accommodation is arranged in terraces to support phased construction and establish a strong sense of identity and community.
Communal living spaces occupy the ground floor of each house, creating active frontages and improving natural surveillance. Bedroom accommodation sits on the upper floors to maintain privacy and reduce noise.
The proposal uses modular bedroom units to support construction efficiency, thermal performance and airtightness. The environmental strategy follows Passivhaus principles, focusing on energy efficiency, reduced consumption and a high-quality internal environment.
Darwin College opened in 1970 and includes student accommodation and associated facilities.
As part of an ongoing upgrade programme, the project reconfigured and refurbished the accommodation to provide 32 student kitchen and dining spaces, alongside the refurbishment of 310 bedrooms across 62 flats.
Works also included upgrades to the reception, circulation areas and access corridors, together with the renovation of two lecture theatres and improvements to accessibility throughout the building.
The team completed the refurbishment while the building remained occupied.
